At 01:52 PM 12/16/2000 -0500, you wrote:
>On Sat, 16 Dec 2000, Bill Anderson wrote:
>
>> Bret Hughes wrote:
>> >
>> > Bill Anderson wrote:
>> ...
>> > > Or my favorite:
>> > > rm -rf .*
>> > > thinking it will remove the current directory OR all the dotfiles in the
>> > > current directory ... and are root.
>> > >
>> > >:)
>> >
>> > I assume this will delete everything from the parent directory down? at least ls
>.* appears to return the .. dir as well. hmm pretty scary.
>>
>> It will limb it's way back up the tree to /.
>>
>> I've seen it.
>
> i doubt that, since that's *not* what it does. and i should know --
>i just tried it. as root:
>
># pwd
>/tmp/d/e
># rm -rf .*
>rm: cannot remove '.' or '..'
>rm: cannot remove '.' or '..'
This is due to permissions, most likely, not lack of function. Try that as root and
watch it go :-)
> this is under red hat 7. perhaps there was a different behaviour
>under previous versions? anyone else care to comment?
>
>rday
>
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